The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-20
THE UTAH & NORTHERN.
The Unfair Treatment by the
Union Pacific. a
LOGAN, November II, 1887.

LOGAN, November II, 1887.
To the Editor Of THE HERALD.
There is grief here over the change in |
time on the q. & N. This narrow-gauge
line, as far north as Franklin, was built
practically by the good people of Cache.
They wanted railroad and turned out
and graded and tied it for interest in it.
To this day many OF them have never
gotten dollar. The U. P. bought it;
pushed 1t northward and it came to be
the best paying road the company ever
had, until by the idiotic policy of con-
structing the Oregon Short Line the U.
P. ruined it. There has scarcely been a
day since the q. P. got possession of the
road that the people along its line have
been shown by its owners the slightest
consideration. They have been robbed
and bullled on freight coming from dis
tsnt points and so far as travel is con-
oerned rarely has the most Indifferent
care been shown for them while its
management was in the hands OF citi-
zeR of Cache it prospered and was liked;
! anu IL LAdQS LAOnOys OuG VLiAS WOuiO
not answer. A change was made III the
superintendency; a dough-headed i'm
portation placed in control an" it
looked as though special efforts were
making to give as pronounced change
of policy as could be. Local
subordInates were discharged and
the Uudisguised insolence which has
been char 4cteristlc of the Union Pacific
scrubs for many years took the place
of the friendly courtesy which pre-
vailed when the railroad employees
were somewhat dependent for place
! upon the fair treatment of patrons.
| Your readers will remember the fight
your journal made some years ago
upon the then agent, f. K. Mcconnell,
for the robbery of Cache Valley IN the
shipment of -four; for bulldOzing Logan
merchants. They will recall the time
when the citizens of Cache, in mass
meeting, determined to haul coal to the
valley. by wagon from Ogden, because
of The exorbitant rate and the cruel
service of the Union Pacific. The re-
cent fights on salt and ore rates it is
useless to enumerate.
Again the old dodge is repeated. The
Union Pacific will not furnish coal to
the people here. The insufficient sup
ply is Red Canyon coal-the most
worthless stuff that is on the market.
1t is stated that blacksmiths are COM
PEELED to close their shops because they
canaot get an ounce of Rockss Springs
coal to work with. Union Pacific men
state they cannot supply the coal de-
mand; that they are 1900 cars behind.
1t has beer SO for the last eight
years. Always unable to supply
| the wants where they have the
clnch-a,ways the dog in the manger
and unwilling to let any one else come
to the crib-never making any prepar-
alton for future season based upon
the experience of the past where they
have the cinch-buS always on hand
with an abundance where they have
any competition. The4hlstOry of the
| Weber mines is an instance, of the
little Utah Eastern, and of countless
other cases. | am satisfied that the
Denver 81 Rio Grande. if it would make
! overtures To go through Cache Valley
for the local trade, would get guaTan
tees from every prominent and infuen-
tial man in the valley that all the pat.
rJnage would be given them for five or
! ten years.
The time that trains now run on is
cause for the most unbOun6ed com
plant. Between Ogden and Pocatello
the trade is almost entirely local. By
thu neS arrangement passengers aud
mail from the east are compelled to lie
in Ogden six cen hours before they can
get TO Cache Valley The only earthly
advantage to be gainet is that passen-
gers reaching Ogden in the morning,
are enabled TO go west or east by the
| fast trains, and scarcely one in hun
dred who travel by way of the u. 81 n.
take that train. Moreover, it could work
no great hardship to have tie trains
as they were for the reason that they
would still connect with the trains
leaving in the evening. AS a matter of
| fact, il could make no difference to
passengers going east from Idaho or
! Montana or points beyond because |
the: would be taken by way of the |
| Oregon Short Line and made to con- |
meet with the fast train at Granger. The |
| only reason can be to give the very few |
passengers destined for the west from |
the north an opportunity 10 catch the |
fast train and for this reason the i'm |
mense local traffic is to be treated in |
the most outrageous manner possible !
or to be dealt with in manner that |
shows how absolutely indiffe ent the |
U. 2. m4gnateS are to the interests of |
the people who maintain and sustain |
the U. & n. narrow gauge.
If the time is not made as before a [
local train should be run.
OCCASIONAL.